Brief Life History of Caroline
When Caroline Grant was born on 19 March 1845, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jedediah Morgan Grant, was 29 and her mother, Caroline Van Dyke, was 26. She lived in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 20 June 1863, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 18, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Sources (11)
- Jedediah M Grant & family, "United States Census, 1850"
- Caroline Grant, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
- Caroline Grant, "Utah, Salt Lake City Cemetery Records, 1847-1976"
Parents and Siblings
World Events (4)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Irish, English, and especially Scottish (of Norman origin): nickname from Anglo-Norman French graund, graunt ‘tall, large’ (Old French grand, grant, from Latin grandis), given either to a person of remarkable size, or else in a relative way to distinguish two bearers of the same personal name, often representatives of different generations within the same family.
English: from the rare Middle English (and Old English) personal name Grante or Grente.
Irish: in Ireland this is usually the Norman Scottish name (see 1 above), but it was also adopted for Irish Mag Raighne, see Graney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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